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If you had been on Wall Street that day, I highly doubt you'd ever "laugh about it".

Possibly we need to differentiate a bit here. Nobody (except for some reaaal strange people) is laughing about what happenend on 9/11.
What gets a laugh though, is the absurdity of this article, which quite obviously is meant as a satire to caricature the recent speach of President Obama.
You don't even have to share the political point of view of the author (obviously not a friend of the president) to find the position taken extremely ridiculous. And one thing (of many others) that defines a "good" punchline is that it gives an unexpected twist to reality.

Herr Goblins - Nicely said

Perhaps your comments are agreed upon, but other motivations (not known) can explain the the diametrical position emphasized by others?

Rico

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Actually, what I meant was, he could have read the posts and made a decision not to make a totally unnecessary comment.

My point exactly.

Sorry, but hal's comment wasn't unnecessary as it shows the mods that, at least one user, finds the post inappropriate due to the bad on political threads.  We have newish mods and, I am quite sure, this helps them decide whether or not action is required.

As an aside, if the mods are doing a great job, and there's no need for an extra "forum police", there certainly isn't any need for an extra "forum police, police".  If hal's post was unnecessary, your post was doubly so.

Quoting Unicus69:

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Quoting Rico:

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Herr Goblins - Nicely said

Perhaps your comments are agreed upon, but other motivations (not known) can explain the the diametrical position emphasized by others?

Rico

Did you honestly think that some people wouldn't be offended by that article? 

That's not the point, my mother felt uneasy about the Hitler talkshow spoof on Family Guy a few years ago. She made her point, I accepted her point of view and she accepted that I found it ridiculously funny.

Or maybe I'm just a bit too sensitive about censorship issues at the moment given what's going on in my country right now...

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Or maybe I'm just a bit too sensitive about censorship issues at the moment given what's going on in my country right now...

This isn't about censorship...at least it isn't for me.  From my point of view, we have two issues...

The first is the humor.  While I accept that you find it funny, you have to accept that others will be offended.  I don't see the latter happening.  What I see is an implication that those who were offended are just too sensitive.

The second point, and I see that James has already touched on it, is that political topics are off limits.  Political satire, while satire, is still political.  As such, the OP should have been removed.  I, too, am baffled.

@ Unicus:
That would imply that any discussion of Chaplin's The Great Dictator on these forums is banned, both because the film and any discussion of it can be construed as "political" and because people might be offended (a whole lot more people were killed in WW2 than on 9/11, right?). Apparently Spain's former fascist leader Generalissimo Franco was offended by it, because The Great Dictator was banned in Spain until his death in 1975.
I somehow find it hard to believe that the fact that the late Franco apparently took offence or the fact that Chaplin made a "political" film would be a reason to ban any discussion of it here.

@ Rico:
Amen!

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Sorry, but hal's comment wasn't unnecessary as it shows the mods that, at least one user, finds the post inappropriate due to the bad on political threads.  We have newish mods and, I am quite sure, this helps them decide whether or not action is required.

Isn't that why we have the red arrow? If you find a post inappropriate, give it a red arrow and move on. As Ken has said earlier, the red arrow now works as a "report to moderator" button